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The Duracell leaders

Latin American politicians need to know when to retire. “All political careers end in failure,” observed Enoch Powell, a British politician. But in Latin America, some seem never to end at all.

Cuba and US restore full diplomatic relations

More than five decades of Cold War and lingering enmity have come to an end with the United States and Cuba restoring full diplomatic relations.

Fast and Light to Pluto (video)

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft will zip past Pluto and its five known moons. Nobody really knows what it will find.

Venezuela’s largest bill buys just 16 US cents

The bolivar has gone parabolic in its collapse,” Russ Dallen, the head trader at brokerage Caracas Capital Markets, said Thursday in an e-mailed report. “Two things are happening: less dollars are coming into the economy from the falling price of oil, and the Venezuela central bank is printing money like there is no tomorrow.”

The BRICS summit: Three things to Know (Video)

The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) are gathering in the Russian city of Ufa for their seventh annual summit.

Pope Francis stars South America trip in Ecuador

Hundreds of thousands of people are gathering in the Ecuadorean city of Guayaquil to see Pope Francis celebrate Mass. Francis brings his message of a church in transformation to a heavily Catholic region, and is expected to address the themes he wrote about in his encyclical on the environment.

Will cash disappear? Many technology cheerleaders believe so, and bitcoin sistems or experiments like Concepción in Colombia make the point, but as Rose Eveleth discovers, the truth is more complicated.

Health complaints change over the decades. What worries us at 25 is very different than our concerns at 40. We to tell us what they worried about most and then conferred with experts. Here's what we learned.

With three appearances on the ramp for Falabella, a multinational Chilean company, Colombian model and Miss Universe 2014, Paulina Vega, was the star of one of the fashion shows at ColombiaModa 2015 in Medellin city Tuesday.

Drug cartels, human rights crises and the collusion between criminals and the state: these are not topics one might expect to hear about at a literature festival. But Flip Festival in Brazil is a literature festival with its finger on the political pulse.

The United States removes Cuba from the list of countries failing to combat human trafficking. The US says concerns remain about Cuban doctors and nurses allegedly being coerced into working on medical missions abroad

There’s no doubt that the 21st century has brought many instances of radical technological change. But doesn’t it seem like the coolest retro-future ideas from those 1950s science expos never materialized? Where are the jet packs, the lunar shuttles, the flying cars?

The Post´s argument is that the transition from traditional to broker styles of clientelism in Colombia has weakened the capacity of Colombian political elites to deal with increasingly serious problems of social conflict and political violence.

In the three decades since the restoration of democracy in Brazil, the centrist Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB) has rarely been out of power. The two presidents with no PMDB ministers in their cabinets had cause to regret it.

The 2016 Dodge Viper ACR is the pinnacle of the Viper line, differentiating itself from lesser snakes with a new 10-way, double-adjustable suspension setup, 15.4-inch carbon ceramic brakes, Kuhmo extreme-performance tires, and a rear spoiler big enough to land a spaceship on.

Mercosur agreed at the Brasilia summit that in the second half of the year they will address alternatives for the elimination of tariff and other similar barriers that impede the natural flow of trade of goods and services among its members. The initiative was agreed by Common Market Council, CMC, on the first day of deliberations and confirmed on Friday by the presidents of the group's full members.

Money might make the world go round, but one small Colombian town has decided to get rid of cash completely. Concepción, nestled in the hills of Colombia’s Antioquia department has 4,500 inhabitants, a two hour drive on a dirt track from the city of Medellín.

More than 35,000 Cubans for whom deportation orders have been issued could be repatriated to the Caribbean island as a result of the renewal of relations between the two countries, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

In 2012 Ecuador and Argentina—along with Bolivia and Venezuela—led an effort to gut the prestigious Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Three years later, at the 45th General Assembly meeting in Washington, DC this June, representatives from both Ecuador and Argentina were elected to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

The Buenos Aires mayoral candidate for the conservative Republican Proposal, or Pro, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, eked out a victory in the election runoff on Sunday by less than 2 percentage points, according to the official vote count.

The bolivar has gone parabolic in its collapse,” Russ Dallen, the head trader at brokerage Caracas Capital Markets, said Thursday in an e-mailed report. “Two things are happening: less dollars are coming into the economy from the falling price of oil, and the Venezuela central bank is printing money like there is no tomorrow.”